Earlier today I foolishly used a program called Uniblue to update outdated drivers on my computer. The updates went fine, until a few minutes after the updates had finished, thats when problems started occurring. 

Errors upon starting FSX such as; FSUIPC error etc. 

 

I have attempted many times to restore my computer back to before I had updated all those drivers, in the hopes everything that I had problems with will be back to the way they were this morning. However, upon attempting to restore I am greeted by a window that pops up after restore has finished (not completed) saying: 

 

System Restore did not complete successfully.

System files and settings were not changed.

System Restore failed to extract original copy of the directory from the restore point.

Source %System Root%\Registration

Destination: ComPlusStaging

 

I'm kind of lost with what to do! I have disabled my anti virus software and re-attempted to restore my system, but error still occurs. 

 

Any help would be appreciated. 

 

Thanks! 

Just open up DriverScanner and click on the Manage Tab then click on Restore.  DriverScanner backs up everything before they make changes.

 

Best regards,

Jim

Just open up DriverScanner and click on the Manage Tab then click on Restore.  DriverScanner backs up everything before they make changes.

 

Best regards,

Jim

I have also tried that, but no luck!?  -_-

Updating your drivers did not cause the problems with FSX.  What was the FSUIPC error?  You might need to rename your Fsx.cfg, restart fsx and let the config rebuild.  If you saw a FSUIPC error upon startup, most likely your dll.xml is corrupted.  Maybe reinstalling FSUIPC will fix the problem.  In any case, it is not the driver update program.

 

Best regards,

Jim

 What was the FSUIPC error?  

 

 

Flight Simulator has detected a problem with a third-party software program (add-on): 

 

Name: FSUIPC4 DLL: FS new universal IPC interface 

Version: 4.90 

 

etc.... 

Ok... I deleted all dll's from the modules folder in FSX for FSUIPC. Fired up FSX, error gone. Reinstalled FSUIPC (latest version) error reappears.

Ok... I deleted all dll's from the modules folder in FSX for FSUIPC. Fired up FSX, error gone. Reinstalled FSUIPC (latest version) error reappears.

Yes, it sounds like your dll.xml somehow got corrupted (maybe when you were trying to do a system restore it somehow restored your dll.xml to an earlier version?)  Maybe.  One thing you can check is the module folder and look for fsuipc.log and open it with Notepad.  It should give you an error report there telling you what happened.  Only thing I can suggest is to open up the dll.xml and delete the fsuipc entry, save, and restart FSX.  The dll.xml is located in the same folder as your fsx.cfg and deleting it will not rebuild it so do not delete it.  Usually a developer will modify the dll.xml when you install their product and they will backup the old one.  You may be lucky and see an old backup that you can rename back to dll.xml.  Of course you'll have to reinstall the addon that might have corrupted the dll.xml when you installed their product.  Sorry I can't think of any other suggestions to fix this but I can say beyond certainty that it was not the driver scanner software.

 

Best regards,

Jim

Thanks for all your help and advice Jim, I'll get to work on that tomorrow, as it is quite late now. FSX is running ok now, settings changed back to default but I managed to reapply my previous settings I had. 

 

Thanks anyway! 

 

Regards, Ciaran. 

That's great Ciaran.  Glad you were able to get it running again.  Hope it stays that way!

 

Best regards,

Jim

Just to add   to the  thread is  that I had  a similar  instance  as  to the op,  that  when I tried  to do a restore option I had  the  same  problem,  what caused  the error  for  me  was my  avg  was causing  the problem. Even when I disabled  my  avg  it still didn't  work,  when I  uninstalled  my avg  and  did  a restore it worked flawlessly  got things  back  to  normal  again.  Than I  reinstalled my avg  and  things  are back to normal.

Now  got  everything  back up to a  external drive  so hopefully  wont  get  to use  it :0

Just to add   to the  thread is  that I had  a similar  instance  as  to the op,  that  when I tried  to do a restore option I had  the  same  problem,  what caused  the error  for  me  was my  avg  was causing  the problem. Even when I disabled  my  avg  it still didn't  work,  when I  uninstalled  my avg  and  did  a restore it worked flawlessly  got things  back  to  normal  again.  Than I  reinstalled my avg  and  things  are back to normal.

Now  got  everything  back up to a  external drive  so hopefully  wont  get  to use  it :0

Thats my main worry from time to time, thinking investing into a 1TB external to fit all my files onto. 

 

For the Anti virus software preventing you from restoring your computer to an earlier date; I un-installed Avast Anti virus (my current anti-virus software) but had no luck on restore. I will be building a new system soon so don't need to worry about that much anymore. 

 

Fingers crossed nothing happens to my system in the mean time, as my HDD is quite old!  :unsure: